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<h1>About the HTML Help Authoring Guide
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<p>The HTML Help Authoring Guide is an online document designed to provide designers, developers, and help authors with the information they need to use HTML Help and its components.
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<p>The HTML Help Authoring Guide has these sections:
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	<li><a href="1hh.htm">Introducing HTML Help</a>: General information about HTML Help and an introduction to the HTML Help components.
	<li><a href="design.htm">Designing a help system</a>: Topics for help authors, designers, and developers using HTML Help to design and develop a help system.
	<li><a href="overauth.htm">Creating help</a>: Information for help authors using HTML Help Workshop as a tool to create, edit, and manage help files.
	<li><a href="overhtmlweb.htm">Using HTML Help on the Web</a>: Information about using components of HTML Help on Web sites to organize and present information.
	<li><a href="helpref.htm">HTML Help references</a>: The HTML Help ActiveX control reference, the HTML Help API reference, the HTML tag reference, are all imporatnt references for the help developer. A pointer is also available to the documentation for the HTML Help Viewer that a help author can use to create help topics for the Help Viewer. 
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<p>The <A HREF=http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/htmlhelp/ TARGET="new">HTML Help Web site</A> contains additional information about HTML Help design and development, including updated references, and sample topics on how to use the Help Viewer.
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